Any ideas about the fast panning shot down the corridors and stairs after Becky fires the shots though the door?
― I'm make-believe. (jed_), Monday, 24 July 2017 05:53 (six years ago) link
I like Maggie in the sherrifs control room.
― I'm make-believe. (jed_), Monday, 24 July 2017 05:55 (six years ago) link
The limo drive through Vegas was such a gorgeous sequence, random "viva Las Vegas" cover and all. Just gonna note again how cheekily lazy the music choices seem on paper, from Penderecki to the many overused instrumental hits to the first YouTube hit for "old school hip hop beat"
xp it was a great shot, I know that much
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Monday, 24 July 2017 05:56 (six years ago) link
Zombie girl an echo of Becky, lurching around as if possessed, spewing bile on her mother.
― Dan I., Monday, 24 July 2017 06:00 (six years ago) link
Idgi
― I'm make-believe. (jed_), Monday, 24 July 2017 06:11 (six years ago) link
love the empathy and compassion in this show
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 24 July 2017 06:27 (six years ago) link
Credit to Amy shiels, she brings the right amount of Lynch weird to that role. In lesser hands it would just be annoying
― akm, Monday, 24 July 2017 06:36 (six years ago) link
― I'm make-believe. (jed_), Monday, 24 July 2017 15:53 (fifty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i assumed it was showing us they were downstairs but in a disorientating this-place-is-creepy sort of way, in line with the anxiety building through the whole first half hour.
― blink truther (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 24 July 2017 06:47 (six years ago) link
…fwiw i'm less inclined to look for ~clues~ that i was in earlier weeks, more than happy for gordon to announce their meaning loudly in a later episode. in six weeks we'll have all the answers! (frost's next book notwithstanding)
― blink truther (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 24 July 2017 06:49 (six years ago) link
*than i was in earlier weeks
next week's title is promising. i won't post it here but it can't not be significant, even if it's said by an extra.
― blink truther (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 24 July 2017 10:35 (six years ago) link
That reminds me that we still have the unexploded bomb of that crappy Eddie vedder song that hasn't featured yet
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Monday, 24 July 2017 12:16 (six years ago) link
Gersten Hayward appears to be sleazing with that sleazebag
also, Gordon's handwaving, jumping recalled the Jumping Man in the room above the convinence store, to me...
― akm, Monday, 24 July 2017 12:24 (six years ago) link
Another returning character we haven't seen yet!
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Monday, 24 July 2017 12:25 (six years ago) link
For those keeping track of such things, that brief promo clip of Cole juddering about that people had asserted was a sign of his impending evil-dom was taken from this episode.
― The miniaturized human skeleton in Martin Short's stool (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 July 2017 12:32 (six years ago) link
Am I alone in having strange dreams after watching this, pretty much every week? It's amazingly consistent. I woke up this morning positive that I'd figured out the grand design of the show's cosmology. Something involving a baby deer and three Lodge spirits who had taken the forms of Supergirl, Andy Warhol, and Charles Starkweather.
― The miniaturized human skeleton in Martin Short's stool (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 July 2017 13:25 (six years ago) link
Cooper's a kind of magician now (using the term very loosely), channeling the synchronicity and dream logic of the lodge(s) to his advantage. Like a white-hat version of Red, maybe.
― Dan I., Monday, 24 July 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link
Kid staring Bobby down was of course dressed identically to his dad, and holding an exact mirror image of his dad's pose. And zombie kid felt like an Eraserhead nod - "oh, you ARE sick," baby instantly swarms in pustules.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Monday, 24 July 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
maybe we'll get classic cooper, maybe not, but for me the ongoing transition from dougie as annoyance to everyone around to him to dougie as obscure force of beatific goodness has already been a fun narrative to follow.
the entire scene of bobby investigating the gunshot was a helluva ride.
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Monday, 24 July 2017 13:46 (six years ago) link
I think pound for pound this might have been my favorite ep of the season yet tbh
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 24 July 2017 13:49 (six years ago) link
this episode definitely felt the most like the original run and was helped by fewer excruciatingly long scenes where nothing happens. It felt brisk and fast paced.
― akm, Monday, 24 July 2017 13:51 (six years ago) link
it even had a proper ending that relaxed into itself
― blink truther (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 24 July 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link
legitimately, it's the first time in the whole run that something felt nicely resolved
― blink truther (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 24 July 2017 13:54 (six years ago) link
the scene where the boss lays out the entire insurance scheme while dougie just sits there and gets all the credit was like the epitome of dougieness
― na (NA), Monday, 24 July 2017 14:11 (six years ago) link
Meanwhile
GUY GUYS GUYS that was LOVE BOAT's JULIE MCCOY (Lauren Tewes) as Gersten's neighbor tonight on #twinpeaks #lovewonthurtanymore #comeaboard pic.twitter.com/YZhXgJm6Sr— Scott Prendergast (@ScottyTheP) July 24, 2017
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 24 July 2017 14:11 (six years ago) link
dougie as obscure force of beatific goodness
That is the perfect way to describe it!
― Dan I., Monday, 24 July 2017 14:37 (six years ago) link
WTF happened to Julie that she is now living in this terrible apartment
― akm, Monday, 24 July 2017 14:39 (six years ago) link
Dougie definitely has a Being There thing going on
Cooper wandering through Dougie's life and magically cleaning up all these situations with the influence of the lodge spirits seems like a great karmic rebalancing for all the ills the bad Cooper has been doing over the last couple decades. It's wild because to us, he just seems like he's the ball in this universal game of Pong, getting bounced between work and home, but he's taken an assassin off the board, fixed lives, made friends.
Belushi's character was the most obvious intervention by the lodge spirits we've be explicitly told about, right? The fact they gave him a dream that exactly outlined what he'd see, and then guided Cooper into the shop to get the pie, seems like they're not fucking around.
― mh, Monday, 24 July 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
someone please get me a gif of Gordon, from the perspective of the detective, just standing there and waving his arms in the air btw
― mh, Monday, 24 July 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
I figure Coop will finally snap out of his fugue state when the Mitchum brothers, in a show of gratitude, present him with a rack full of furs.
― The miniaturized human skeleton in Martin Short's stool (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 July 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/OQbmY2t.gif
― Karl Malone, Monday, 24 July 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
haven't seem a frame of this, but if DL has salvaged Jim Belushi's career that's some upset.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 July 2017 15:02 (six years ago) link
I'm just old enough to remember Belushi attempting to anchor the next Twin Peaks in the early 90s with Wild Palms.
― Chris L, Monday, 24 July 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link
Belushi's actually pretty good in this, for better or worse
― mh, Monday, 24 July 2017 15:06 (six years ago) link
Eh, Belushi's been fine but I doubt anyone is going to be seeking him out on the basis of his TP work. I'm trying to think of actors who's likely to see an upswing in their careers as a result of their participation in this. MacLachlan might start getting meatier film roles again. Hell, Lynch may be the biggest acting revelation.
― The miniaturized human skeleton in Martin Short's stool (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 July 2017 15:08 (six years ago) link
Belushi's been a good combination of menacing and silly. I don't think this will change anyone's opinions on him, but he hasn't been embarrassing.
― Moodles, Monday, 24 July 2017 15:08 (six years ago) link
I mean, like, Naomi Watts is great but everyone knows she's great so I don't really expect her participation to alter her trajectory one way or another.
― The miniaturized human skeleton in Martin Short's stool (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 July 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
I'd love to see ashbrook get more work off this tbh
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Monday, 24 July 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
ha was just going to say the same thing
― na (NA), Monday, 24 July 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
Bobby traversing the nightmare just outside of the diner is so far from anything I might have expected to see in this
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Monday, 24 July 2017 15:10 (six years ago) link
That honestly might've been the most nightmarish sequence yet.
― The miniaturized human skeleton in Martin Short's stool (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 July 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
hell yeah, he's been a joy
he had so much material to work with in this most recent episode
also I'm still stuck on Bobby being Becky's dad! Bobby attempting to give his daughter support and trying to help her make good decisions only for her mom to get giddy and rush out the door as soon as she saw her current bad boy criminal boyfriend was frustrating. goddamn it Shelly, we're trying to be role models, here
― mh, Monday, 24 July 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link
if anything, that nightmare of a gun/car/puking kid scene was almost a respite from the domestic horror
― mh, Monday, 24 July 2017 15:16 (six years ago) link
Already rewatched and there's something to what Evan R says... there's a distinct change in Dougie's intonation when he says "good pie" and "friend" at the end, both are deeper, more resonant, his face is sadder and seems more comprehending... I'm not totally convinced but I don't want to dismiss the possibility either.― sciatica, Monday, 24 July 2017 03:59 (eleven hours ago) Permalink^ despite all this teasing i hold out no hope whatsoever for dale being dale again. if it happens it'll be a nice surprise.― blink truther (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 24 July 2017 04:00 (eleven hours ago) Permalink
― sciatica, Monday, 24 July 2017 03:59 (eleven hours ago) Permalink
^ despite all this teasing i hold out no hope whatsoever for dale being dale again. if it happens it'll be a nice surprise.
― blink truther (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 24 July 2017 04:00 (eleven hours ago) Permalink
I was surprised so few people interpreted the scene this way; maybe we've just been conditioned by 7 episodes to believe Cooper will never be back. But my reading of the scene was unambiguous: It gave him the comfortable, glamorous re-entry into the world he was denied the first time around. And if you watch him eat the cherry pie, faster and more purposefully than Dougie ever would, you can see that it mirrors the way Dale ate pie for the first time in the original series. There's an awakening there.
I'm sure he won't be 100% back to his old stuff, ready to pick up where he was and solve mysteries or whatever, but I think he'll have his personality in the next ep. And yeah (nano spoiler) that next episode title really says a lot.
― Evan R, Monday, 24 July 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
i haven't had time to read much of this thread since the latest ep but the place where gordon and albert find ruth's body is definitely the convenience store from the episode 8 flashback right?
― dynamicinterface, Monday, 24 July 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
Agree w ppl about how big-hearted the vegas story in particular is (although it's had its share of senseless brutality, inc the pre-cuddly mitchums). The box/dream thing must be one of the strangest pieces of fan service ever.
This episode's been on my mind all day. This show is just outrageously great.
Xp to mh bobby's response to both that and the possibility that Becky was the victim of domestic abuse was heartbreaking
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Monday, 24 July 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
xp not sure, but it's definitely located at the coordinates on William Hastings' website
― mh, Monday, 24 July 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
RE: the scene with Bobby investigating gunshots outside RR.
There's a strong sense that the town of Twin Peaks is breaking down. It could be driven by evil mystical forces or the superdrugs. I also take it as Lynch's commentary on the decay of civil life in the US.
― Moodles, Monday, 24 July 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
Wasn't the convenience store located in New Mexico?
xxxxp
― Moodles, Monday, 24 July 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link